USS Anderson (DD-411)

USS Anderson (DD-411) was a US Navy destroyer that was commissioned on 19 May 1939. The ship was laid down at Kearny, New Jersey on 15 November 1937 and named after Admiral Edwin Anderson Jr., a Mexican Revolution hero. In January 1942, Anderson was sent to the Pacific, where she fought at the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of Santa Cruz, the Battle of Kwajalein, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the attacks on Japan in 1945. On 1 July 1946, following the end of World War II, she was used as a test ship for the Operation Crossroads nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, and she was sunk during "Test Able".